Updated 4/23/2013 with link to full Frohnmayer opinion, here. 4/20/2013. New Oregon Administrative Rule 571-004 took effect March 4, 2013. It allows the Duck athletics department to randomly test “student-athletes” for use of illicit drugs, and take away their scholarships if they fail one test: The program shall also describe potential sanctions…
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4/19/2013 parking update: ODE story on faculty union’s unsuccessful efforts to talk with Gottfredson about his bargaining team’s slow pace, here: “It’s important for our representatives to work with theirs, and not to be jumping to different personnel,” Altmann said. “The president signs off on everything that the administration does,…
From the Chronicle, 4/19/2013: Nearly two-thirds of the 56 most powerful Division I public universities now offer multiyear awards, according to a Chronicle review of public records. Yet few of those institutions do so for more than a handful of athletes. Among the holdouts are some of the wealthiest programs,…
4/19/2013: From Editor Nick Ekblad, on the Commentator Blog: WE WANT TO KNOW WHAT YOU HATE! So much that we made this hate document! Now is your chance to unleash your hatred at/for/via the Oregon Commentator! FREE SUDSY T-SHIRT FOR THE BEST HATE ESSAY Well-grounded hate is quintessential because its ugly alternatives…
4/18/2013: The New Zealand Parliament votes for marriage equality, then sings a Maori love song:
Report That Blamed Shrinking Faculty Workloads for Rising College Costs Is Retracted. From the Chronicle. 4/18/2013.
4/18/2013: Thanks very much to an anonymous correspondent for extensive notes, which I have lightly edited. Usual disclaimer applies – these are opinions about what was said or should have been said, nothing a quote unless in quotes. Synopsis: (FWIW – I wasn’t there.) Hard time getting a quorum of Senators.…
From the Bozeman Chronicle. 4/17/2013.
The administration and the union have been going back on forth on whether or not “academic matters” can be arbitrated or not. Here’s an interesting story in the Chronicle from a few years back about a professor from Alaska who lost a grievance. His union apparently had the right to…
Update 4/16/2013: A group of students are protesting Holmes’s intervention: We write this letter in protest of the circumstances surrounding the culmination of the 2013 ASUO elections. The unwarranted intervention by UO Administration in the release of this year’s election results was an unacceptable breach of the autonomy of our…
4/15/2013: Mark Thoma of the UO Economics department and The Economist’s View blog considers the possibility in his talk on academic blogging, given at a Kaufmann Foundation conference Friday:
From: “Provost Office” Date: April 15, 2013 10:11:08 AM PDT Subject: Clark Honors College Candidate Withdraws Reply-To: provost@uoregon.edu Colleagues, The finalist for the CHC Dean search scheduled to visit campus this week has withdrawn. All meetings and events planned for this visit on Thursday and Friday are cancelled. Please engage…
4/13/2013. I made a mistake, and I want to correct the record and try to make amends. I’ve been claiming UO’s Randy Geller has been paying Sharon Rudnick $400 an hour to run the administration’s negotiations with the faculty union. This was based on documents her HLGR firm gave Marion County Judge Thomas…
From a professor in Texas, naturally. Meanwhile, an English language institute in Georgia gets in trouble over its innovative internship program. 4/15/2013.